2022-03-27
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – F – floppy – hard disk & hard – hardly
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียง floppy = “FLOP-ee”
ออกเสียง hard disk = “HAHRD-DISK”
Common Errors in English Usage Dictionary:
floppy disk & hard disk
Floppy disks are fast disappearing from the computer world,
but it’s been many years since they were literally floppy.
The fact that a 3 1/2" diskette is enclosed in a hard plastic case
should not lead you to call it a “hard disk.”
That’s a high-capacity storage medium
like the main disk inside your computer
on which your programs, operating system, and data are stored.
Dictionary.com:
SYNONYM STUDY FOR HARD
Hard, Difficult
both describe something resistant to one's efforts or one's endurance.
Hard is the general word:
hard times; It was hard to endure the severe weather.
Difficult means not easy, and particularly denotes that which requires special effort or skill:
a difficult task.
Hard, Callous, Unfeeling, Unsympathetic
imply a lack of interest in, feeling for, or sympathy with others.
Hard implies insensibility, either natural or acquired,
so that the plight of others makes no impression on one:
a hard taskmaster.
Callous may mean the same or that one is himself or herself
insensitive to hurt as the result of continued repression and indifference:
a callous answer; callous to criticism.
Unfeeling implies natural inability to feel with and for others:
an unfeeling and thoughtless remark.
Unsympathetic implies an indifference that precludes pity, compassion,
or the like:
unsympathetic toward distress.
Collins COBUID English Dictionary:
hard & hardly
1. 'hard'
Hard can be an adjective. If something is hard, it is not easy to do.
Coping with three babies is very hard work.
Hard can also be an adverb.
For example, if you work hard, you work with a lot of effort.
Many elderly people have worked hard all their lives.
2. 'hardly'
Hardly is an adverb. It has a totally different meaning from hard.
You use hardly to modify a statement
when you want to emphasize
that only a small amount or detail makes it true,
and it is best to consider the opposite as true.
For example,
if someone hardly speaks, they do not speak much.
If something is hardly surprising, it is not very surprising.
I hardly knew him.
Nick hardly slept because he was so worried.
If you use an auxiliary verb or modal with hardly,
you put the auxiliary verb or modal first.
You say, for example,
'I can hardly see'.
Don't say 'I hardly can see'.
Two years before, the wall had hardly existed.
She can hardly wait to begin.
We could hardly move.
Be Careful!
Don't use 'not' with hardly.
Don't say, for example, 'I did not hardly know him'.
Say 'I hardly knew him'.
Hardly is sometimes used in longer structures
to say that one thing happened immediately after another.
The local police had hardly finished their search when the detectives arrived.
Be Careful!
In structures like these you use when, not 'than'.
Don't say, for example,
'The local police had hardly finished their search than the detectives arrived'.
In stories, hardly is sometimes put at the beginning of a sentence, followed by had or the verb be and the subject.
Hardly had he uttered the words when he began laughing.
3. 'hardly ever'
If something hardly ever happens, it almost never happens.
I hardly ever spoke to them.
Tim hardly ever met her friends.
